That I don't know, and it would be worth you filing a bug report (see the link 'Bugs' at the top right of this page) so that the developers can investigate. You'll need to give details of your hardware and software (output of the lspci command, output of the uname -a command, output of the lsmod command, output of the lsusb command, contents of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, error messages in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, and whatever else they ask you for in their reply).

You could do some investigation when you are in the LiveDVD environment, by looking at the things I have listed above. Without getting my hands on your box I don't know what is going on in your case, but it is possible that the installer is installing a different version of the NVIDIA driver to your HDD to what it is using in the LiveDVD environment (if indeed it is using nvidia-drivers when you accept the default LiveDVD boot). If you enter nvidia-drivers at the box on the Entropy packages search page http://www.sabayon.org/packages you'll see there is more than one for the kernel that SL 5.4 LiveDVD uses (2.6.35-sabayon).

Well, I'm not an NVIDIA expert. Where are they when you need them? I know you guys are out there hiding. C'mon, give this guy some advice.

But it does tell me a few things:

The "taints kernel" thing is nothing to worry about, it's just the tree-hugging FOSS brigade's way of saying it's a closed-source driver (closed-source = bad ; open-source = good ).

It's telling you that the GPU it detects in your PC is the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 32M/64M and that you need to use the NVIDIA legacy driver version 173.14.xx, and that you can't use the 195.36.24 NVIDIA driver because that driver does not work with your model of GPU.

So, you need to install the package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.27#2.6.35-sabayon and uninstall the package x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53#2.6.35-sabayon (and any other version of nvidia-drivers that you find installed on your PC).

BTW, this is an NVIDIA issue, not a SL issue. You just happen to have a GPU that the latest NVIDIA driver does not support.

I've lost track of where you're at. If I recall correctly you've installed SL to your HDD, right? Can you get to a desktop (whether it's under the VESA driver or not)? If not, use Ctrl-Alt-F1 or -F2 up to -F6 to get to a console (ASCII terminal screen). Log-in as "root" (no quotes) with the root user's password. Then work your way through the procedure in the SL Wiki article Fresh Install - What to do?. Then, still as root user, enter the command:

Then you've got to do the eselect thing but this time select nvidia rather than xorg-x11 'cause you're going to be using a closed-source driver rather than one of X.Org's open-source drivers. And check the other things I've told you in previous posts and that AMD/ATI post in case I've forgotten something (like having to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, for example ). If you need to edit anything, use the nano command like so:

it searches over 18 different mirror sites but cannot find it?? I tried looking dor it in sabayon.org/packages but even though it shows it's there there is nothing there to download... any other suggestions?

Oh... you're using the 2.6.34 kernel. I though you had downloaded SL 5.4, which has the 2.6.35 kernel?

Why don't you just install the 2.6.35-r5 kernel image from the Entropy repository (the package is called sys-kernel/linux-sabayon-2.6.35-r5) using the equo command? Then you can install the corresponding x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.14.27#2.6.35-sabayon NVIDIA driver package, again by using the equo command. Do an equo conf update after just in case any new versions of configuration files were downloaded with the packages.

If you upgrade the kernel you'll also need to do, as root user, in a Konsole/Terminal window or in a TTY console:

lol!! have a virtual black eye... sorry about the wrong version But do you know what! Instlled SL 5.4, and everything works stright away!!!!!!!!!!

But thaks to you I have learnt alot, which is one of the reasons i wanted to learn linux - the forum here is great and I think that sabayon is my preferred distro! A lot of people talk about how great the unbuntu forums are... `but i've got to say that the Sabayon folk are excellent!! Thanks alot Fitzcarraldo! i'm now going to see if entropy sulphur needs an equo